PGM 2012

Richard Everitt’s twitter account (@bayesian_stats) signaled this PGM 2012 conference in Granada next September. PGM stands for probabilist graphical models and is thus relevant for a lot of us. (Even though I seem to only know Jim Smith in the plethoric program committee.) The website is well-designed with plenty of pictures, but the above logo somehow put me off! (Quite a minor offence, really!!!)Indeed, if the connection with the Arab roots of Granada was to be made, the proper Arabic characters should have been used, at least for the figures, which would give ۲۰۱۲ instead of the above…